One of the main reasons why Inception is so appealing is because it gives spectators a challenge. Unlike other films, it assumes people are smart enough to understand what films have to offer. And people like being treated as being smart. Don’t you all… you intelligent readers you.

The shots were amazing in this movie

Even before the film came out, I knew (along with a bunch of others) that it would be highly entertaining and be considered an amazing film. Why? Just look at the players that make up the film. First of all, Christopher Nolan wrote and directed. However, you can’t really trust the legitimacy of a film based on the director alone though. See what happened to M. Night Shyamalan with The Last Airbender? Besides Nolan, there’s the awesome cast with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, and many others. I sort of saw Leonardo DiCaprio as someone who could’ve been easily replaced by another male lead actor. But he still did an awesome job as the leader of the pack. And the music was “sensational” (for you AGT people out there). If a film has Hans Zimmer as its composer, chances are, it’s going to blow you away.

Why is he stalking me?

After watching the film, many people said that some of the scenes reminded them of The Matrix. For example, the scene in the hallway of the hotel where gravity is shifted about is similar to Neo bending the rules in the Matrix. I’d have to disagree. In The Matrix, the character, Neo, is the one who controls he’s unique abilities and bends perception. In Inception, the strange bending of gravity is not caused by the characters, but by an outer force which they cannot control. If anything, Inception, reminded me Nolan’s previous work, The Dark Knight. The epicness of the films, the interesting shots, and the familiar actors, all caused me to think of Batman while watching Inception. It makes much more sense. The characters in Inception don’t even wear sunglasses. And like the guys in Inception, Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight has a slick back hair style.

Similar to this shot, other shots in Inception contain vanishing points

If there’s a film to watch this summer, it is definitely this one. Just look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s facial expression here.

He has an awkward smile on during the car chasing scenes too

The ending of the film doesn’t matter. Whether the spinning top falls or not, who cares. You watch the film, are entertained, what more do you need? Really, the last scene is just something that Nolan added at the end to make you think more about the film and say, “maybe I should go watch the movie again and see if it’s real or not.” So it’s not as much of a story-adding scene as it is a marketing ploy.